1957-11-23 — Page 18

FEATURES

YOUR PUZZLE

CORNER

CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Boy's name

4 Stage play

6 Before

TRIANGLE

CARTONS provide a base

for the triangle.

**a porent";

Puzzleman's

word

The second wond In

third "a golfer's term": fourth "rand"; fifth " Srantsh boulevard"; and sixth "a young lady." Complete the triangle:

CARTONS

there sratences is Tue

TRUE OR FALSE?

Can

you decide which

of

and

7 Cleopatra's snake

which false?

The Grand

Canat 19

in

Vienn

The Chicago.

Buckingharu

North

la Shoro

10

Palace LA in

DOWN

Paris

2 Egyptian sun god

Behold!'

10 Toward

11 Collection of sayings

13 Born

14 Come in

16 Morning moisture

1 Anger

3 Wine cup

4 Kind of bee

5 Autumn flower

0 Note in Guldo's scale

8 Americati writer

12 In pildition

13 Not old

-19-Total expenses (ab;)-

SCRAMBLERS

for

city

in

and

DI

Faneuil Hall is in Philadet- phia.

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WACKY COMPASS

RB

WACKY COMPAGS

START AT SOUTH)

WEST AND READ EVERY A

W FIFTH LETTER. E (YOU DECIDE AIEFCÏOUG

TO FIND THE PROVERBŹ W

PUZZLE PETE HAS HIDDEN,

Scramble

Oklahoma" for

brood again plicasants." Scramble "Paradise" for n low snel hi?!" and again for "require." Sertumble poetle word

for "above" and

huve "sh eggs" and again for "mineral rock."

(Solutions on Page 19)

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Legend Explains Why Owl Is Sacred

TANY, MANY

MAX, Spanish was nake

named

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1957.

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FOR

ZOO'S WHO

TURTLES HAVE NOTEETH,BUT THE JAWS HAVE HORNY EDGES THAT CAN CUT HARD SUBSTANCES.

IT IS SAID THAT THE MULLET IS THE ONLY FISH RICH ENOUGH TO

FRY IN ITS OWN FAT....

THE GORILLA IS THE RAREST OF APES NOT ONE HAS EVER FEEN FORN IN CAPTIVITY...

A Butterfly Amounts

To Something

By MABEL HARMER

A

FLUTTER BY PRT-BUTTERFLY

DOCKY Butterfly was A great

disappointment to his mother and father. For that matter his enta were a great disap- pointment to him. They simply wouldn't allow him to be himself. Rocky's mother hoped he would be a poet. His father wanted him to be a boxing champ.

"I wish you would go out nad Haton Tu The hummingbirds hun," said his mother. might give you an inspiration."

"Stop

worrying about me, Mother." replied Rocky. "You'll get wrinkles. 1'11

tura Inta something."

**Back into worm, prab- ably," remarked a beetle who was having a late breakfast nearby.

"Are you golog to sit there and take Uhat?" di manduci Rocky's father,

Rocky looked at the beetle's armor and salt, "Yes."

Rockty sighed,

He

His father anged Unek ni the beetle again. "Maybe he is bit tough for you to tackle, ha When the admitted. "Why years grass near the child.

not go over saw the little girl, it and challenge that ladybug?

You're at

least 10 times her coiled ready to strike her. her

size, her Nearby, a wise old owl was the roosting on the branch of the ce. Seeing the child's danger,

the owl flow down from tree and pounced upon there is very little rainfall coiled rattlesnake with in New Mexico, the water force that it killed it. supply is scarce and limit-

Locità took baby daughter with when she

went to Canadian River to do

family laundry. Because

ed. Often people had to

wished that his father would leave him

along. It didn't seem wwww

abc

"Flutter by, butterfly," replied crolly, deking a speck of dust from her beauty spots Then the flew away herself,

Rocky considered chasing her, hut only. for a moment, He flew lazily over to a boneysuckle vine and settle down, spread- Ing his wings in the sunlight.

Just then he heard a voice say, "Ah, perfect specimeni only it will hold still, I'll get a fine plcture."

Rocky, stayed very still. Being model was much easier than boxing or writing poetry,

a

★

The man took three pictures.

the polite to challenge a lady to a Then he said, "This will be

the boxing match, even such name was bug.

"Aything for family,"

go a long distance to get A this very moment, rome water for household uses, of the village people, returning their day's work, like Locita, home from Many women

passed near the ttle girl. When went to the

they saw the owl kill the snake their washing.

and save the baby, they were, alled with great awe.

river

Lo do

From that time the people of Shorty after Lecita reached Roy and s vicinity belleved the river, she became very ill that at death our ancestors'

imnely. its and died a most

thal went into vis The little girl Jay beside her watched over later generations mother's body, all alone und un- and protected them from evil. protected.

Some time Cater, n

For this reason, the owl is rattlesnake crawled through the sacred in Roy, N. M.

lurge

New

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1957

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over

if her last wonderful

the. peace in he sighed, and few to address the insect. "Good morning, lady,” he be- Kati. "How about blt of sparring-bug?"

HOW TO

MAKE ARR

FLYING PROP

1.DRIVE 2 SMALL BRADS

IN THE END OF A WOODEN SPOOL...FILE OFF HEADS.

2.WEDGE A ROUND PENCIL INTO A SECOND SPCOL. PUT TAPE AROUND IT TO MAKE IT TIGHT...THEN PUSH IT THROUGH THE LENGTH

OF THE FIRST SPOOL.

3.TIE ASTRING 24 IN. LONG

AROUND TOP SPOOL .....WRAP TIGHTLY.

PUNCH HOLES THE

SAME

4.CUT A PROP

FROM AN

ALUMINUM FOIL

PLATE.

DISTANCE 5.BEND PROP

APART AS LIKE THIS... BRADS IN SPOOL.

PUT THE PROP ON

ROLD FULL

SRA

AND

for my book," and

went away.

''I Rocky Jew home again. didn't get any inspiration for a poem," he told his parents, "and I haven't done any boxing. But I've done even better. I posed for a picture to go in a book. What's

I more, simply being myself."

There was peace after that.

was

Grasshoppers Can Be Food

TUIE INDIANS in the

T

Great Basin often ate grasshoppers.

They could not be 100 par- ticular as to what they ate, for there was no great abundance of food is there was in some of the other parts of America. Sometimes the long-horned rasshoppers swarmedt over the lunds of these Indians, and they were glad to see these in- svels, for it meant on abund- ance of food for a time.

They bullt n great circle of. fire. As the fre burned in towards the centre of the circle, IL forced the grasshoppers phend of it.

So great piles of

grashop

BOYS

HOBBY. CORNER

AND

COLLECT MOUNTAINS ON STAMPS

By J. WORTHINGTON

"VOLLECTORS will be in-

in the

Cterested

new

a

US. stamp honouring famed landmark in New Hampshire. This 3-cent stamp commemorates, Post- master-General Arthur E. Summerfield announced, the discovery 150 years ago of the amazing stone. forma- tion known as "The Old Man of the Mountains."

The central design is a "pro- Ale view of this natural forma- tion which looks like a man's lave, as seen from Franconlu Notch, N. HI, At the bottom Is the state motto of New Hampshire "Live Free or Die."

US POSTAGE

30

THE OLD SPORTHE IMOUNTAINS:

INEW HAMPSHIRE LIVE FREE OR DIE

New Hampshire's "Old Man" is a favourite tourial attruction.

"The Old Man of the Moun- tains" is sold by many to have been the inspiration for Nathan- lel Hawthorne in writing short story, "The Great Stone Faer," which was read by many The National Parks Issue of 1034 Engilsh classes.

several fine mountain It attracts offers tourials year after year,

views: Mt Rainier in Woshing- This issue will be of special ton; Great White Throne, Utah; Interest to those who collect Mt Rockwell, Montana; and the Smokies of North

stumps related to literature and Great authors. It will also be a decir- Carolina. able item for those who make special collections of mountains- on stamps.

"The Old Man" takes its place Going outside the borders of in a growing list of postage the United States, collectors stamps which show mountains may also include Mi McKinley, of the United States. In recent on the Alaska rammeinorative years these have included: (1837), and Iwo Jima (1945) Washington Territory Centennial showing the now-famous raising (1053); Mt Rushmore (18521; of the United States flag on Mt Grand Coulee Dam (1952), Surlbach. Still other which shows mountains in the tains may be spotted with a bit background, as does the Centens of patient "research." ary commemorativė (1951) of The Old Man of the Moun- Nevada's Arst settlement. fains" was placed on sale first The Palomar Observatory on June 21 at Franconia, N. H., (1948) is atop Palomar Mouri- tain, of course, in California.

noun

and thereofler at many other post offices throughout the States.

MAKE THIS CHRISTMAS

PRESENT

IN TWO COLOURS

TF you find these instruc-

you

pers, singed by the fire, collect follow, Mummy will be able

ed in the centre of the

Erent

Bre circle and the Indians gath-to help you sort them out! ered them up cally.

INTERNATIONAL

STAMP

Hubert Woyty-Wimmer, an Austrian now living at Acton, designed this stamp for the United Nations. It is the fifth of his designa för UNO.

This Stem honoure the International Telecommunica- tions

Union, the body co ardinating radio and telephone services under United Nations auspices. The design ́shownin telephone dist bearing the UNO orest, telegraph tłoker. tape, and radio waves,

MATERIALS:

2 ozs. Sirdar Double Knit- ting Wool in light colour and 3 oza, same wool in dark colour. 1 pair No. 9 needles.

▾

TENSION:

5 ate, and 4 rows to inch.

MEASUREMENTS:

8 ins. deep and 10 wide.

ABBREVIATIONS:

Sta. stitches, K. knit, inches, tog. together. Uso the 2 colours | throughout.

Cast on 50 ate.

1

GIRLS

Great Pyramid Is A

Mystery To Builders

years convenient sizes which can be

THOUSANDS of

before our cities raised. Jurgied and manouvered about. How could these huge stones their, elegant steel and con- have bech so neally fitted to- crete heads, there was a rether by a people who ap- building in Egypt which parently had nothing but etude surpasses the ingenuity of tools with which to work?

Today's builder with a but- today's cleverest builders.

lery of machines and akilled That Egyptian structure, of workmen could hardly equal course, is the Grent the task. He certainly could Pyramid.

not guaranice that the building

What is so unusual about the Pyramid? If you could examine

would keep its Internal shape after thousands of years. Even

scarcely

the caping stones on its north tone will bend in tirne. face-stones that have escaperi Yet the planes and ongles of the wearing away by weather the Pyramid's galleries and Ind souvenir hunters you chambers have would discover that these

The 15- changed through the ages. ton blocks had been fitted to Pyramid is considered to be one gether with an accuracy of one the most-if not the most ole-hundredth of an inch.

accurate pieces of construction

A modern mason pois himself in the world.. on the back if he achloves the

Long after twentieth-century accuracy of one-teur of on buildings have crumbled, the Inch between the joints. And Great Pyranid will probably be uses not 15-ton blocks, but main standing.

McSnooze's Tall Tale

-Did He Really Keep The Rain From Falling?

By MAX TRELL THE voices came from behind

the garden wall. Knari and Hanid, the shadową, with. the Turned-About names, were. walking about in the garden. They recognised They heard the voices clearly. their frienda Pixie O'Scowl and Pixle Me-

Snooze.

As usual, O'Scowl and Mc- Snooze were quarreling.

Knorr and Honid Ustenéd for a few moments to try to find out what they were quarreling

over.

Much Too Lary

"I don't belleve a word of it,"

O'Scowl wes Pixie

saying. "You're much too lazy to have done all the things."

"But I tell you I did them," Pixie McSnooze was saying.

"You didn't," shouted Pixle O'Scowl.

By

this

Hanid

wall.

O'Bcowl paced angrily up and down before McSnoore,

my eyes for a minute or two. When I opened them again, there was the fence a built. Í must have built it in my sleep."

"You didn't!" shouted Pixlo

"I did!" yelled Pixie Me- O'Scowl. "The men built It!” Snoozo.

"Oh no," said Pixie McSnoore, time, Knart and had climbed over the "The men weren't there my They found Pixie Mc- more. They had gone away Snooze sitting on the beat siem

"And what happened next?” of a daisy, holding his chin in Konf asked Pixle McSnooze.

his hand while Pixie O'Scowl paced angrily back and forth in front of him.

"I don't belleve a word of it," Pixie O'Scowl kept grumbling, "You couldn't have done what you said you did. You're too inzy."

Just then, the two, Pixles noticed -Kanri and Horld.

"What's all this argumont about?" Hanid asked,

Pixie O'scowi jerited a thumb toward MeSnooze sitting on the bent daisy stem and said: "He

bullt a fence, washed says he some clothes and kept the rain from falling."

It's The Truth

"And I did!" shouted Pixie McSnooze. "It's the truth!"

"The next thing I did was to hop inside a window. A lady was getting ready to wash a big basket of clothes. I shut my eyes and-presto!-ibe clothes- were all wushed and ready to be hung out on the line.

Saw

"Just then I. looked up and big black cloud coming and covering the sun. So I know that I had to stop it from

And I did! I did it raining. with a sneeza,”

"A sneeze!" Hanid exclaimed by astonishment. “You stopped the rain from falling with sticcze?"

T

Pixie McSnooze nodded. sirezed a rather small little sneeze but it was ble enough to Then the make the gross stir. leaves in the trees started to said Pixie move. Then the whole tree "It's impossible," O'Scowl, "He's too lazy to have swayed, then all the trees in the done any of those things. Be neighbourhood started swaying

the back and forth, stop

For a great sides, nobody

wind was now blowing, all rain from falling.”

can

"I did! I did!" Pixle McSnooze started by my little sneeze. kept screaming.

Finally Knut and Hanis de-

elded that McSnooze should be

allowed to tell what he had

"And,

Pushed It Away

finally the wind blow done so that they all could see up into the sky and started whether he was reaily telling pushing the big black cloud. It the truth."

pushed it away from the sun, McSnooze rubbed his eyes, it pushed it across the sky until yawned and at length began as it disappeared behind the hills follows:

"I was walking along and the sun shone again and li the road when I saw that a wasn't going to rain. fence needed to be bullt, Just "And that's what I did and

Ing a double st. (ho. 2 twists of were thinking that light colour and 2 of dark); re-wight to built.

pest from across row,

a

simply

then some men came along with you've got to believe me." hammers and chunks of wood Knari and Hanid dld believe and they started looking at the Pixie McSnooze. place, too. I could tell they But Fixle, O'Scowl

fence said:

"Baht" and strode sway in anger. Nobody could make him believe that his brother He Saw A Fenco

McSnooze wasn't the Idziest Pixic (and the biggest story... "Well, I was -of

standing there teller) in the whole world of and I guess I must have closed Pixie and people.

2nd row: Silp the first bolt of st. knitwise, ✦ hold the 2nd half of this st, with forefinger left hand to prevent it slipping eff needle, put needle through 1st half of next st. and this ol being held, wind wool twice around right hand needle knit st.

Bad

You will see that you have knitted tog, half of one st, and/ half of next st.”“

Ropeat from * across row. Repeat 2nd row only until 8 ina, have been worked.

Next row: Cast off in this manner. Knit 1st half st, put needle through the 2 sts, as bo- ina. fore but do not wind wool twice round needle, just knit in the usual way; pull let at, over 2nd st., repeat from * to nerosa TOW. Work another plece the same. Join the two pieces tog, from top and bottom, leaving a 2 inch opening on the sides, for handle tos and spout.

inis.

Make a twisted cord with the 18 row!: K.16* put needia in durk wool, put around top of next st. as to knit it, wind, cosy about 2 ins. down, pull up wool twice round right hand tightly, and the; finish ends of needle, then knit it, thus mak- cords with travels on pompam).

Rupert and Rusty-35

Rupert and Blacking about when's Rusty > He missed his hall way to the house when they tea yesterday and now you've both are halted by a cry Eross the old missed your breniɗfast.” “Quickly, gentleman who has spotted them Rupert trims to tell the story of From beyond the bushes. Hither adventure. It all spends very where have you bed, young configood, but the old man limen Rupeer be calls. *** We've kiedy. All I said moderatand | been worried out of our wits that Rusty is in danger,” ha grys woulacing if you'ware lost." And "* Com, let's